Alert archive / Kentucky / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 20, 2002, 7:41 AM EST for Clark County, Madison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 2002, 7:41 AM EST (12:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2002, 10:45 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clark County, KY, Madison County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 180 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 448 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KLMK 201241 FFWSDF KYC049-151-201545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 740 AM EST WED MAR 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CLARK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY MADISON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 1045 AM EST * AT 739 AM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER WINCHESTER. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE RICHMOND DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. $$ STUREY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 3:18 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Butler, Grayson | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 6:04 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Boyle, Larue, Marion, Mercer, Washington | 116 min |
| Mar 20, 6:26 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Grayson | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:27 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:39 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison, Nicholas, Scott | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 8:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Boyle, Garrard, Larue, Marion, Mercer, Washington | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 9:01 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Hart | 104 min |
| Mar 20, 10:07 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 10:19 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine | 116 min |
| Mar 20, 10:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Garrard, Larue, Madison, Mercer, Nicholas | 80 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.